The LA Times reports that Lady Gaga’s Born This Way album has been banned in Lebanon. The news came the say day as the announcement the pop star would participate in Rome’s Circus Maximus, the closing event of 2011 Europride. Continue...

Tom Vek’s new album Leisure Seizure, his first since 2005′s We Have Sound, is being released digitally today, with a physical release set for September. Vek will also play two NYC gigs, with a show at The Mercury Lounge on July 12 and at Union Pool in Brooklyn on July 13. Continue...

Red Hot Chili Peppers will drop their tenth studio album on August 30, according to an announcement via the band’s official site. The new disc, entitled I’m With You, is the band’s first since 2006′s Stadium Arcadand was produced with longtime collaborator Rick Rubin. Continue...

If you feel like it’s been a while since you’ve had some Grace in your face, you’re in luck! The singer/actress/songwriter/fashion icon will be releasing new album Hurricane, on September 6. Produced by Jones and Ivor Guest, the album is the singer’s first collection of new material in 22 years. Continue...

They’re fantastic, vaudevillian, psychotic, sociopathic clowns who write fantastically winsome music. Charming is a blanket term for a band so well versed in so many styles, but keep their hearts pinned to one of the founding souls of American music, folk inspired country. But, they write a folksy country hybrid with a sense of macabre, a sound that’s clear, abusive and dipped in gasoline, and fused with a side of napalm. Continue...

As June begins, summer blockbusters are in full force. Almost as important to the big time studios as which movies the general public goes to see, are which previews get aired during those sold out shows. Here are some newly released trailers that you might stumble across. Continue...